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Dinner

Item is a video work created by Dean Brousseau in 1984. Dinner is an experimental documentary using a universal family event as its focus.Framed in snap-shot style, the video seems to arbitrarily “crop off” the participants, saving anonymity. This tape allows the viewer to concentrate on details of inpromptu etiquette and casual conversation around the dinner table, until, in the end, as with any family event, the camera is brought out to take pictures. On the cue “okay, smile!” the photographs taken are tossed one by one into the video frame, revealing at last the dinner participants in fuzzy Polaroids.

Brousseau, Dean

Growing together

Item is a video created by Regent’s Park Sole Mothers Association. The video documents a meeting of the Regent’s Park Sole Mothers Association, a group of largely low income women trying to create a sense of community spirit in their area of Toronto.

The airlift is phase I

Item is a video work created by Liz MacDougall and Brenda Conroy. The videos contents examines the Southern Ethiopian famine caused by drought. The video documents the implementation of an emergency air lift supply program initiated by the World University Services of Canada. Through interviews with individuals we are presented with an overview of Canadian aid to Ethiopia. The tape demonstrates the effectiveness that concerned people can have through organization, and ends with a plea for more help.

MacDougall, Liz

Out of the centre

Item consists of a video recording produced by Halifax Cable, directed by Cathy Busby, edited by Steve O'Keefe and cable produced by Jim McInnis. The video features interviews with Joe Blades, Ann Vayall, Steve O'Keefe, Chris Words and Chris Callaghan.

Busby, Cathy, 1958-

Gunning the economy

Item consists of a video recording by Kathleen Flanagan entitled "Gunning the Economy". The video offers a brief socio-economic analysis of the structure of arms production and consumption as it relates to Nova Scotia and underdeveloped nations.

Untitled

Item consists of a video recording by Michelle Irving that features "1. Performance video 1998, 2. Performance video 1997, 3. 3rd Floor Closet Inst. 1998, 4. Closet Inst. 1997".

Irving, Michelle

Braindamadj’d: Take II

Item consists of a video recording entitled "Braindamadj’d: Take II". The description accompanying the video states: "Paul Nadler, a creative force in the Montreal television industry, suffers a brain injury and is found naked, on the verge of death, on a roadside in Egypt. This film traces the excruciating process of Nadler’s recovery."

Breaking the cycle

Item consists of a video recording by Sobaz Benajmin entitled "Breaking the Cycle". North Preston boasts some of the most gifted singers in Atlantic Canada, if not in Canada. Yet few have been able to capture the international limelight. In this short documentary, it showcases some of the performers from North Preston, the oldest indigenous black community in Canada, who are working to break this cycle. This project was an outreach project organized by Moving Images Group in collaboration with CFAT. The aim was to bring video production to a community. The project was written, shot and directed collectively.

Benjamin, Sobaz

Networking cabaret, tape 1 and 2

Item consists of a video recording by the Centre for Art Tapes of their "Networking Cabaret". The video features the set-up and preparation for the event, the performances of the cabaret, backstage footage and after-party.

Drug warriors

Item consists of a video recording by Connie Littlefield entitled "Drug Warriors". The video is a trailer for a proposed documentary which was eventually funded by the National Film Board, and the trailer was created on a CFAT scholarship.

Littlefield, Connie

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